While Azerbaijan sought to present itself as a global leader in climate action by hosting COP29, its environmental policies, pollution levels, and governance issues tell a different story.

Global Witness is today both alarmed and concerned at the repressive move by authorities in Azerbaijan to force the closure ...

Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest against his ...

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: AP/Sergei Grits And about 400 people protested at ...

Azerbaijan has filed a lawsuit against Armenia in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague over what it says is ...

The third session of the Political Consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, took place in ...

Undergraduate and graduate students share their experiences from COP29, the UN’s annual climate change conference.

Global corruption remains alarmingly high, according to the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by Transparency International. The report ...

Professor Aaron Hitefield and students Ziona Rose and Dylan Richardson rubbed elbows with climate policy makers last November in Azerbaijan.

The impact of climate change is growing by the minute and urgent action is needed to put knowledge into the hands of the world’s smallholder farmers so they can improve their livelihoods and achieve ...

The sources also said that India’s NDC would likely “reflect the disappointment of the climate finance outcome at COP29 in Baku” last year. It is a subtle hint that its 2035 NDC was unlikely to be a ...

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia’s republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on ...